Tag: potato

Breakfast Tacos: Potato and Egg

Breakfast Tacos: Potato and Egg

Potato and egg breakfast tacos were my lunch staple all through grade school.  My mom would make them for all us kids, and send us off to school with these wonderful tacos wrapped inside a brown paper bag.  By lunch time they were cold, but […]

Pastel de Papa is also known as Cottage Pie, Sheperd’s Pie

Pastel de Papa is also known as Cottage Pie, Sheperd’s Pie

It was in Peru where I enjoyed a Pastel de Papa that was earthy, flavorful, no pretensions. A potato (papa) and meat dish that you want to eat all day long!  La papa (not the Catholic pope) was first cultivated up in the Andes about […]